Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[enola]

Bresse X CL cross would give a boost to growth rate of the chicks, but you would not get blue eggs from the pullets.

Personally, if I was going to cross Bresse for meat and colored eggs, I would use Ameraucana hens. They are considerably meatier than CL. At least in my chicken house......

 

[ronott1]

Bresse X CL cross would give a boost to growth rate of the chicks, but you would not get blue eggs from the pullets.

Personally, if I was going to cross Bresse for meat and colored eggs, I would use Ameraucana hens. They are considerably meatier than CL. At least in my chicken house......

If the CL has double blue genes(most of them are) Then half will have the blue gene. Blue is dominant.

 

[ronott1]

If the CL has double blue genes(most of them are) Then half will have the blue gene. Blue is dominant.

This is not correct, so I found better information:

OOx00 would be all blue. Oo x 00 would be half blue.

The parent, especially the Rooster, with the blue egg gene would produce all or half blue egg shell laying pullets.

http://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/gms2-breeding-for-blue-eggs/

 

[enola]

That's true the pullets will inherit one blue gene, but when you use a rooster that hatched from a tinted egg, the resulting pullets will lay a green egg.

 

[ronott1]

That's true the pullets will inherit one blue gene, but when you use a rooster that hatched from a tinted egg, the resulting pullets will lay a green egg.

The brown genes are separate and a coating on the blue egg shell gene. There is no green egg shell gene.

Granted, the Bresse eggs are cream colored and some are a bit brown so there may be some brown coating on some of them. The brown coating is much more complicated so depending one what they get for those genes, the eggs will be white to very light green.

I would think many of them would be blue though.

 

[enola]

I never said there is a green egg shell gene. So, I am not sure where that statement came from.

The tinted shell color comes from the brown egg shell gene, sure there is only a 'little' of the brown coating. But, it is still there.

So, while I doubt I am wrong, I certainly could be......

 

[ronott1]

I never said there is a green egg shell gene. So, I am not sure where that statement came from.

The tinted shell color comes from the brown egg shell gene, sure there is only a 'little' of the brown coating. But, it is still there.

So, while I doubt I am wrong, I certainly could be......

Because the CLs rarely have brown, there would be no brown from them. That would give a small amount of the offspring wihth no brown coating Genes(9 to 11 of them) and so they would have a pure blue egg color.

They will be a type of EE so they will have all of the colors except dark brown.

 

[enola]

The 'brown' that would cause the eggs to be green would come from the 'tinted' eggs of the Bresse. You have to admit that not many CL hens lay a truly BLUE egg.

 

[ronott1]

The 'brown' that would cause the eggs to be green would come from the 'tinted' eggs of the Bresse. You have to admit that not many CL hens lay a truly BLUE egg.

Sadly true....I would use my UofA blue egg layers. They lay very blue eggs.

Wrong thread though.

 

[ronott1]

This is so timely!

Sorry for being off topic. I hatched some OEs bases off of Penedesenca and UofA blue and sold them to a friend on BYC. Hers are now laying so I need to share a picture. The one on the left is from an EE

See how blue the egg is? All of them are like that.